Aristotelis De natura animalium libri nouem ; De partibus animalium libri quattuor ; De generatione animalium libri quin[que] / interprete Theodoro Gaza.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aristotle.

Contributor:

Gazēs, Theodōros, approximately 1400-approximately 1475.

Zanis, Bartholomaeus de, de Portesio, active 1486-1515, printer.

Scotto, Ottaviano, -1498, publisher.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Selections. Latin. 1498

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Zoology--Pre-Linnean works.

Zoology.

Animals--Early works to 1800.

Animals.

Genre:

Printers' devices (Printing) -- Italy -- Venice -- 15th century.

Penn Provenance:

Burr, Charles W. (Charles Walts), 1861-1944 (donor)

Sena, Ugolinus (former owner)

Physical Description:

6 unnumbered leaves, 89 leaves, 1 unnumbered leaf (the last leaf blank) ; 30 cm (folio)

Other Title:

De natura animalium libri nouem

De partibus animalium libri quattuor

De generatione animalium libri quinque

Caption title (leaf b1r): Aristotelis Stagiritae De historia animalium

De historia animalium

Fingerprint:

i.i. i-ur i-l- ptct (3) 1498 (A)

Place of Publication:

Impraessum Venetiis : [M]andato & expensis ... Octauiani Scoti ... per Bartholameum de Zanis de Portesio, Die viiii Augusti i498 ... [9 August 1498]

Notes:

Title from title leaf (leaf a1r).

Imprint from colophon onleaf q5v, which reads: Impraessum Venitiis mandato & expensis nobilis uiri Domini Octauiani Scoti Ciuis Modoetie[n]sis. Die. viiii. Augusti. i498. per Bartholameum De Zanis de Portesio.

Chancery folio. Leaf a5v: 62 lines; area of text: 244 x 152 mm. Woodcut initials. Printed headlines. With signatures and foliation; without catchwords. Rubrication not called for. Register on leaf q5v. Woodcut printer's device (81 x 50 mm.) of Ottaviano Scotto on leaf q5v; cf. M. Harman, Printer's and publisher's devices in incunabula in the University of Illinois Library, no. 94.

Signatures: a-q⁶ (leaf q6 blank).

"Probably reprinted from De Gregoriis' 1492 edition"--BM 15th cent.

Local Notes:

Leaf size: 293 x 204 mm.

Penn Libraries copy has a few early ms. annotations, underlines and manicules in brown ink in text.

Presented to the Penn Libraries in 1940 by Dr. Charles W. Burr through the Friends of the Library.

Penn Libraries copy has partially illegible early Latin ms. ownership inscription ("Ad usu[m] Fratris Vgolini sen[a]e s[an]cti [...]ci") of Ugolinus Sena in brown ink at foot of leaf q5v.

Penn Libraries copy has donor bookplate from previous binding laid in; 2 photocopies of pastedowns(?) from previous binding laid in.

Penn Libraries copy bound in full modern parchment with 2 leather fore-edge ties (1 intact).

Penn Libraries copy imperfect: leaf q6 (blank) wanting.

Penn Libraries copy: upper portion of many leaves dampstained; fore-edge margin of occasional leaves dampstained; stain on leaves n2v-n6v; mended tear in tail margin of leaf f4; small portion of tail margin of leaves h6 and q3-a5 torn off and mended with a blank leaf; small portion of fore-edge margin of leaves q1-q5 torn off and mended with a blank leaf; wormhole in tail margin of leaves o3-q5; leaves cropped at fore-edge margin with occasional damage to ms. marginalia.

Cited in:

Goff A-976

BM 15th cent. V, p. 433 (IB.23728)

GW 2353

BN cat. des incun. A-522

BSB-Ink. A-681

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 2264, 2265

ISTC ia00976000

Contains:

Aristotle. Historia animalium. Latin.

Aristotle. On the generation of animals. Latin.

Aristotle. De partibus animalium. Latin

OCLC:

11815222